Donate Your Left Over Pumpkins To This Zoo In Lufkin, Texas

Did you go all out this year for your fall decor? Perhaps you went so far as to buy a ton of pumpkins to put on your front step or in the house.

If you didn't carve those pumpkins up, the Ellen Trout Zoo could use them. It's easy to donate your leftover pumpkins to them.

They just want the whole unaltered pumpkins, so that they are fresh for the safety of the animals that eat them. They will not be accepting jack-o-lanterns or decorated/painted pumpkins.

Animals Love To Play With Your Left Over Pumpkins At The Ellen Trout Zoo

The pumpkins will be used as enrichment items for all kinds of different animals at the zoo. The hippos, Nakili and Jazi, at Ellen Trout Zoo not only like to push them around in the water, but they might just eat them whole.

In this tweet from the Cincinnati Zoo you can see what DYK Hippos, Bibi, Fiona, and baby Fritz, can do to a pumpkin. It's like a life-sized game of "Hungry Hungry Hippos".

If you have some pumpkins just drop them off at the Ellen Trout Zoo during regular zoo hours. They also ask the public for donations of other things that would usually get thrown away.

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If you get a real Christmas Tree this year, don't get it flocked and when you are done you can take it to the zoo for them to use for the animals.